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@craigmaloney @skyfaller @onepict @smallcircles @strypey

I could not agree with you more.

All meetings and conferences should allow for both in-person and remotely connected experiences…and they need not (and cannot be expected to) be exactly the same experience. It is funny how many cling to the old way of doing things…because we miss the experience of being face to face.

I get that, but it also plays way too many favorites to be a useful construct going forward. At a minimum, in-person only conferences are biased towards:

Those with the means to fund travel and lodging.

Those with enough time to escape other work to accommodate travel on both end of the trip.

Those whose schedules are light enough or flexible enough to accommodate a full conference attendance.

Those whose health is not a concern or whose conditions can accommodate the meeting spaces/mode of travel.

Finally, in the PNW, we have seen attendance doubled in a particular sector by going to “hybrid meetings”.